Chapter 9: The Mine Bones

"Hey! Lao Li, how about you go and drink two glasses after work later? ”

"Alas! Okay, Lao Zhang, it's been a long time since we've been drinking together, right? ”

"Yes, no, Lao Wang's wife has been strict recently, didn't you see Lao Wang running home every day after work? That's right, Lao Wang! I can't let you run away later. ”

"I see you, don't force Lao Wang, who doesn't know that he is a strict wife? If I go home late, I'm afraid I will have to kneel on the washboard and sleep under the eaves when I go home tonight! ”

"Hahaha~~~~~~~"

More than 1,000 meters underground, in a dim coal mining roadway, there was a burst of laughter.

"Alas! Don't make a fuss, I'll detonate the freshly buried explosives later, and we'll pack up and get off work! ”

"Okay! Hi! Everyone, pay attention, start detonating explosives! ”

I saw that under the dim light, the miner's lamps were moving rapidly, and after a while, they gathered together. "Lao Zhang! Count the number of people! Let's all retreat to safety! ”

After a while, Lao Zhang's voice came: "Okay! Lao Wang! It's all in the way, and you're ready to go! ”

"Ready! Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Lao Wang pressed the ignition switch with one palm. Hearing only the sound of "boom", the mine shook a few times with the sound of blasting, and suddenly the mine was filled with thick coal ash.

"Phew!" Lao Wang spat and shouted, "Everyone is okay, right?" ”

"It's okay! No problem! There was a reply from the soot.

"When the coal ash is gone, let's clean it up and get off work!"

In the dim light, the miner's lamps began to disperse, and began to clean up the tools and blasting site after the blasting.

"Lao Wang, come and see! What is it! Lao Zhang, who was packing up the detonator, heard Lao Wang's shout, put down the detonator in his hand, and walked over under the light of the miner's lamp on his head.

"It is! Human bones! Looking at the white bones exposed under the coal pile in front of him, Lao Wang couldn't calm down at this time. Wait a minute! Don't come, everybody. I'll call right away. Lao Li, you take everyone out first, go outside the alley and wait, you don't care about anything, don't ask anything, I'll tell you when you go out later. ”

Lao Wang hurriedly ran to the internal telephone booth under the mine, panting and dialing the phone number of the office of the person in charge of the mine.

At this time, in the office, a middle-aged man with a big belly was lying on a chair, with his feet on the desk, dreaming of making a fortune. Suddenly, he was woken up by a series of phone rings. I saw him open his sleepy eyes and sit up very reluctantly. Frowning, he lifted the phone and asked impatiently: "Hey! Who! ”

Hearing the voice on the phone, Lao Wang hurriedly returned: "Hello, Mine Chief Liu, I am Lao Wang of the third blasting team, and I have something urgent to report to you." ”

Demolition group king? Could it be that something happened when the mine was blasting? The middle-aged man stood up all of a sudden, and recently he has repeatedly emphasized the number of casualties in coal mining accidents. This year, the 15 places in the county are full, but there can be no problems at this critical time! If there is another accident, it is estimated that his good days will come to an end. "Tell me, what's going on? Is it dead? ”

"No, Mine Chief Liu, it's not that serious. It's just that when I blasted the roadway from decades ago just now, I dug up a lot of white bones. ”

Upon hearing this, Mine Chief Liu hurriedly breathed a sigh of relief and sat down. "Why are you all talking about no one dead? Isn't it just a pile of bones, whatever? ”

"But, mine chief, it's not lucky, is it? Besides, the older generation said"

"Alas!~Alas!~Alas!~ Stop! Don't spread rumors about me anywhere, be careful that I fire you squid! Give me what to do, what to do! That's it! With a "bang", he hung up the phone. Hum! Isn't it just a pile of bones? Whatever! Mine Chief Liu continued to lie in his chair and dreamed of making a fortune.

"Hey! Manager! Manager! There was only a blind tone of "Toot ~ Beet ~ Beet ~ Toot ~" on the other end of the phone.

"Alas! ~" Lao Wang sighed slightly, hung up the phone and walked back, at this time Lao Wang's heart was already unable to calm down. I have been doing this business for more than 20 years, and since the age of 14, my family has been poor and has followed the villagers to work in the mines. In the past 20 years, I have heard a lot of strange incidents in the mine from the old man. In particular, this coal mining roadway was known as the existence of the death roadway during the Anti-Japanese War a few decades ago.

It is said that at that time, this coal mining roadway was the main coal mining roadway for the entire mine. The Japanese sent countless people here and mined them endlessly every day. During the entire mining process, countless lives were devoured again and again in this roadway due to landslides. And I heard that as more and more people died in this tunnel, ghosts gradually began to start, from the first tunnel, to the entire mine. And because of this, even the Japanese have died a lot.

Under the scoundrel, the Japanese invited a Taoist priest to do the ritual for three days and three nights, and finally they could only seal this place. The mine has completely stopped.

However, after the reform and opening up, the mine was bought by private individuals. Today's bosses are only concerned with making money, and in order to increase the production of coal, they forcibly open up the area for mining. I have reflected it a few times, but to no avail.

"Lao Wang! What's going on? What do you say? Seeing Lao Wang walking towards him, Lao Li hurriedly asked.

"Let's get off work first! Don't worry about it for now, I'll tell you when I get out. ”

After the workers left, a dark wind blew out of the tunnel in the dimly lit mine

This night, Zhou Lao Wu, who was in charge of the mine's night drainage, came to the drainage operation room alone. He turned on the drainage pump under the mine, habitually spread the bedding he had prepared in the operation room, and fell into a deep sleep.

Speaking of which, Lao Wu is also a hard-working person this week. He was disabled in his right hand in his early years, and he only got a congenitally disabled wife when he was nearly thirty. had a daughter in her thirties, her family was already poor, and she expected to have a son in her fifties. Looking at the infant child waiting to be fed, I don't know whether this should be happy or sad.

In order to support his family and his son, he gritted his teeth and let his fifteen-year-old daughter drop out of school and go out to work. I farmed the land during the day and found a job in charge of drainage in the mine at night. Rely on his meager monthly income to support himself and his family.

At this time, Zhou Lao Wu, who had been tired all day, was wrapped in a thick futon and fell into a deep sleep. But somehow, tonight was exceptionally cold, and he closed his eyes tightly and tightened the futon wrapped around his body, and fell asleep again.

"Woo~~~~~" A gust of wind blew in through the door of the drainage operation room. The simple old wooden door kept shaking back and forth, "squeak~~~~~~squeak~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"It's so annoying!" Zhou Lao Wu, who was asleep, lifted the futon with a very impatient foot, sat up, raised his right hand and wiped his hazy eyes. With his left hand, he touched the lamp that was set aside. "Smack!" With the sound of a switch, a bright light shot out. With the light of the miner's lamp, he slowly walked to the wooden door and put the wooden door against the stool. Yawned, turned around and continued to lie down, wrapped in the futon and ready to sleep.

Zhou Lao Wu, who was lying on the bed, suddenly heard a sound of "squeak~~~~~~", and bursts of cold wind blew in. At this time, Zhou Lao Wu felt that a black figure was standing at the door of the operation room looking at him, and he tried his best to restrain himself from looking out of the door.

I only felt that the black shadow outside the door was slowly walking towards him step by step, step by step, and the beads of sweat on his forehead kept slipping down drop by drop, at this time, Zhou Lao Wu felt that the black shadow was getting closer and closer to him, and he hurriedly closed his eyes.

Suddenly, he felt a bone-chilling cold spreading up along his feet, the soles of his feet, his ankles, his calves, his thighs, and his body all the way to his hands. Frightened, he tried to sit up, but found that he couldn't exert any strength at all. It was darkness in front of him, and he tried to deflect his head, but he couldn't do it anyway. At this point, it was as if something was pressing on me. Gradually, he began to feel that his breathing was becoming more and more difficult, more and more difficult. He wanted to open his mouth to shout, but found that he couldn't even open his mouth at this time. "Is this a ghost press?"

He opened his eyes, "Ah!! ~~~~~" I saw a face covered in soot and eyes constantly flowing with blood.

"Ah!! Yes!!! ~~~~" At this time, Zhou Lao Wu sat up panting and sweating profusely, turned on the miner's lamp, looked around, and there was nothing. Even the wooden door was closed. "Did you just have a dream?"

I sat and stood for a while, and waited until my mood calmed down a little, and then I lay down in the futon with my back to the wooden door again.

But every time he closed his eyes, he always felt that there was a black figure standing in the doorway. Even if he turned on the electric light, the front and back were facing the wooden door. As soon as you close your eyes, a black figure and a face covered with soot and blood constantly flow outward in your mind.

At this time, Zhou Lao Wu sat up, flipped out his watch and saw that it was just past three o'clock. Thinking about the black figure that kept floating in my mind as soon as I closed my eyes, and the face that was covered with soot and whose eyes were constantly flowing with blood, I forced myself to endure sleep. I persisted until the early morning of the next day, and the number of people who went to work gradually increased, and then I went home from work.